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GPT-4.1 vs Llama 4 Scout: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Llama 4 Scout is significantly cheaper at $0.10/$0.30 per million tokens vs $2.00/$8.00. GPT-4.1 is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1320 vs 1230. GPT-4.1 ranks higher overall with an Arena ELO of 1290 vs 1250. Llama 4 Scout offers a larger 10486K context window vs 1048K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGPT-4.1Llama 4 Scout
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Input Price / 1M tokens$2.00$0.100
Output Price / 1M tokens$8.00$0.300
Context Window1.047576M10.48576M
Max Output Tokens32,76832,768
Arena ELO1,2901,250
Coding ELO1,3201,230
TTFT (ms)260200
Tokens/sec88110
MultimodalYesYes
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesYes
When to Use GPT-4.1

Choose GPT-4.1 when you need: 1m token context window, excellent coding performance, strong instruction following, competitive pricing for its capability. It excels at coding, long-context, agents, general-purpose tasks.

Strengths:

  • 1M token context window
  • Excellent coding performance
  • Strong instruction following
  • Competitive pricing for its capability

Best for:

codinglong-contextagentsgeneral-purpose
When to Use Llama 4 Scout

Choose Llama 4 Scout when you need: 10m token context window, very affordable, open-source and self-hostable, good general performance. It excels at long-context, chatbots, cost-sensitive, open-source tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two. Its 10486K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • 10M token context window
  • Very affordable
  • Open-source and self-hostable
  • Good general performance

Best for:

long-contextchatbotscost-sensitiveopen-source

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